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Vol. 9, Issue 1, 015601 (2024)

Semi-hydro-equivalent design and performance extrapolation between 100 kJ-scale and NIF-scale indirect drive implosion

Huasen Zhang^1,2, Dongguo Kang^2,a), Changshu Wu², Liang Hao²..., Hao Shen², Shiyang Zou², Shaoping Zhu² and Yongkun Ding²|Show fewer author(s)

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¹Laboratory of Computational Physics, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 10088, China

²Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 10088, China

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Huasen Zhang, Dongguo Kang, Changshu Wu, Liang Hao, Hao Shen, Shiyang Zou, Shaoping Zhu, Yongkun Ding. Semi-hydro-equivalent design and performance extrapolation between 100 kJ-scale and NIF-scale indirect drive implosion[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2024, 9(1): 015601 Copy Citation Text

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Huasen Zhang, Dongguo Kang, Changshu Wu, Liang Hao, Hao Shen, Shiyang Zou, Shaoping Zhu, Yongkun Ding. Semi-hydro-equivalent design and performance extrapolation between 100 kJ-scale and NIF-scale indirect drive implosion[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2024, 9(1): 015601

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